Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:09:18 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150216 From: "Alysha Shugart" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, February 16, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- R.Kuzio de Naray R.Kuzio de Naray SPICAM --:-- --:-- M.Hammergren M.Hammergren SPICAM --:-- --:-- J.Wang P.Du DIS 03:05 06:00 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- GS01/R 17:58 23:10 5.2 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 AD02/R 23:10 01:10 2.0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 IH01/R 01:10 06:36 1.9 0 0 0 2.3 1.2 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Shugart It was cloudy and humid most of the night, with a tiny amount of precip and snow flurries around 21:30. Humidity limits and clouds finally allowed us to open wtih terrible seeing at 03:00. No technical problems. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 04:15 dcamera 238( -157) 234 48 -4.4 -1.3 1.3 -1.6 -3.8 -- 2.28 05:05 dcamera 650( 118) 240 52 -5.2 -3.8 -2.6 -4.2 -5.0 -- 3.00 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 4 -4 22 229 (SW) 632 mstly clr none 17:00 4 -3 14 199 (SSW) 787 mstly cldy none 18:00 2 -3 29 215 (SW) 1088 ptly cldy none 19:00 1 -3 25 205 (SSW) 1011 mstly cldy none 20:00 1 -3 18 231 (SW) 859 cloudy none 21:00 1 -4 21 271 (W) 1500 cloudy none 22:00 1 -6 17 292 (WNW) 1425 cloudy none 23:00 0 -6 10 265 (W) 1429 cloudy humid 00:00 -1 -5 13 284 (WNW) 1250 cloudy humid 01:00 -3 -5 9 307 (NW) 1055 cloudy humid 02:00 -4 -5 5 351 (N) 979 cloudy humid 03:00 -4 -7 8 2 (N) 956 mstly clr humid 04:00 -5 -8 11 4 (N) 913 mstly clr none 05:00 -5 -14 16 342 (NNW) 624 clear none 06:00 -5 -14 16 330 (NNW) 596 mstly clr none Note: the wind was coming from the azimuth listed. The convention used is north=0 degrees, east=90 degrees. The dust count is particles > 1u per 0.1 cubic feet. TELESCOPE STATUS Telescope drives operational. Current TCC version: 1.0.4 Current TUI version: 2.3.2